They were aged as young as 13 when they left their classrooms across Australia on Thursday 23 November 2023. They were led by children aged 16. They took to the streets in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to march for the proscribed terror organisation Hamas in Gaza, barely a month since Hamas had attacked Israel killing 1,200 people, raping and taking others hostage including children younger than them. These marches were said to be organic: the idea of the kids acting alone. But teachers were involved influencing them before and after.

Four days later, Labor’s Victorian minister for education Ben Carroll told public media ABC News that he knew that the marches were going ahead but, “The government does not support the action that has been put forward by a small subsection of the education union.”

He  knew the teachers’ agenda too having seen a flyer that, “specifically calls on them to bring strangers and political activists into the classroom.” He said, “That is incorrect and it’s contrary to their stated aims of teaching.”

He was unsure whether teachers might now be “asked not to wear specific attire such as a pro-Palestinian badge”.

Though teachers were involved,  two 17-year-olds who marched in Melbourne told ABC News on November 24 that, “They’re not really teaching it [i.e. the popular false narrative that Israel was Palestine] in class. So, the only way you’re going to find out is if you come to the rallies, educate yourself. You’re not learning any of it at school. It’s not even getting mentioned at school.”

They were wrong and things have only worsened in the two-and-a-half years since.

Six days ago on June 26 in the US, the principal of William Diamond Middle School, Massachusetts, “sent an email to seventh-grade students apologising for an educational session on antisemitism after he said families told the school that the lesson made some students feel ‘unseen,’” the New York Post reported.

That lesson had covered the Holocaust.

The real shock came with the wording of the school’s apology that read:

“The goal was an important one: to help you recognize hate, understand where it comes from and encourage you to speak up against it. We have learned from speaking to some of your families that the experience did not feel that way to you. Some of you felt unseen. Some of you felt like your own history, your identity or your community was left out or erased. We are sorry because every one of you deserves to walk into this school and feel that who you are matters—Arab students; Jewish students; Lebanese students; Muslim students; Palestinian students—every student. And in this case, we missed the mark and did not achieve what we hoped to.”

How on earth could that be? How could a warning to “recognize hate” be confronting to anyone? How could teaching the story of the murder of six million Jews in a World War that claimed 70 million lives “erase” anyone’s “identity”?

Simple. Some kids were the haters. And they’d now bullied their school into stopping the teaching of history.

Three days later June 17, Canada’s CBC reported that: “Graduating students at two Canadian high schools submitted Holocaust denial quotes in their yearbooks this spring—and the quotes were even published before the schools took action.”

Hate preaching, and the suppression of the freedom to learn, are rife in Western high schools today, and bullies are the cause.

These bullies are not just kids but educators and school administrators.

No under-16 social media ban will ever end this bullying until teachers, their unions and their schools are held to financial and criminal account.

Antisemitism is a bit like Covid-19 in its continually morphing behaviour.

Its first strain came when Jesus instructed his Apostles whom he’d tasked to spread The Word: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel [i.e. the Jews].” But Peter and Paul went to the Samaritans and Gentiles anyway which started 2,000 years of Jew blame.

Following 7 October 2023, the largest single-day Jewish death toll since the Holocaust, antisemitism’s current strain took hold in the campuses of the West’s universities and colleges, the UN, and once trusted NGOs.

Then, for the first time since 1933, it jumped the hurdle into the mainstream media where it spread to open politics, commerce, the arts, science and back to schools.

They say that Covid-19 was deliberately made by humans in a laboratory. Today’s antisemitism was deliberately made with much planning by humans too.

Australia enacted the world’s first Social Media Ban on children on 28 November 2024. It targeted under-16s.

Part of its purpose was to serve as an unspoken litmus for Labor’s socialist allies in UK and Canada—both electorally unpopular, yet both wanting to test the waters before passing their own similar bans.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, the body that administers the program said on its official website that the ban sought to, “protect young Australians from pressures and risks that users can be exposed to while logged in to social media accounts. These come from design features that encourage them to spend more time on screens, while also serving up content that can harm their health and wellbeing.”

But it went further, saying that the ban was in fact a “part of the Australian Government’s wider strategy to protect Australians online.”

Protect “Australians” from what? Reading history? Getting a balanced education? Fact checking the news?

Therein lies its problem. Adults are the ones who must verify their age, not kids.

Last week I was asked to verify my age to access a media site, The Free Press. Some erudite Western minds write for it. I merely wanted to read an article on Brexit by the academic and historian Niall Ferguson whose article pointed to his Substack

The Free Press isn’t social media. CBS’s new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss founded it. She now also oversees CNN but she doesn’t swing to the left.

We’re left to ask, will Australia now restrict CNN too? Is Labor’s actual goal to force adults to give up their IDs to read the news and nothing to do with protecting kids?

But let’s step back to the ABC story of 24 November 2023 where the two teens told readers to get educated by marching with them.

Western Sydney University associate professor Tanya Notley, who heads its Advancing Media Literacy research program, blamed social media for the uptick in pro-Hamas sentiment in the children who had marched the day prior.

She said, “Young people who are really highly engaged with news are also more likely to be taking a range of civic actions.”

She’d surveyed over 1,000 children aged 8-16. She found that, “Almost half of those surveyed said news makes them motivated to respond to a situation, such as the war in Gaza.”

But the real question was, what did kids classify as “news”?

Notley said, “Social media took over television as a frequent source of news for young people for the first time.”

She said that the Chinese platform TikTok particularly was the culprit: “pro-Palestinian posts dwarf pro-Israel content. Earlier this month TikTok revealed the #freepalestine tag on the platform had 25.5 billion views compared to 440.4 million views for the #standwithisrael tag.”

Now, that’s some social influence coming from a key strategic partner of the Islamic Republic of Iran who desperately needs its oil and may not want to tick it off.

Since that story we’ve seen how groups inside the UK’s BBC and Guardian, Canada’s CBC, US’s CNN and New York Times, and Australia’s ABC and Nine Entertainment among numerous others have turned their brands against Israel tarnishing all credibility.

The point is, this mainstream noise only amplifies social media. So, supressing TikTok will mean nothing if the 24/7 news can push political hate too.

Traditionally bullying starts in the school in its cliques, dining halls and playgrounds.

It used to end in school too but no longer.

Bullying jumped to adulthood with the rise of Black Lives Matter in 2020. Then came the hubris of Covid Denial breeding the “Karen” and the rise of public narcissism.

Today it’s been sealed by denying that cultural misogyny, child rape, religious extremism and the infection of ISIS ideology through men of military-age illegally swarming Western shores, exists. And by governments running dubious visa programs for votes, and by the pay-to-protest cadres of violent anarchists and communists forming mobs in the streets supporting the whole.

That bullying then feeds back into our schools by parents, teachers and administrators opposed to the Western way.

Meaning until schools are allowed to teach history, let all students think without fear or favour and have teacher-biases left at home our under-16s will never be safe. They won’t have a chance.

Bullying is not a new phenomenon.

It has killed kids throughout the modern era. Through teen magazines, TV, Hollywood, fashion, jealousy and cowardice.

It has been a tactic of political extremism both left and right. It has been a feature of cults and religious dogma across all faiths. It is domestic violence. It has been a means of coercion to the norm. It has been a tactic of business and crime.

But today it’s something more because the money in bullying has been found in the “Pallywood” aka lies of the pro-Palestine movement and many adults who honestly couldn’t give a toss about Gaza are enriching themselves from it regardless.

So, kids are suffering being beaten up, spat on, abused and shamed.

Shaming is where the classroom teacher enters as the weapon of mass conformity.

The University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health published a study on bullying in October 2023.

It surveyed 3,500 Australians aged 14-to-15 asking if they had experienced 13 types of bullying over a past month.

Its findings were frightening:

“One-third of teenagers reported that they had either bullied, been a victim of bullying, or both (bully-victim). On the whole, all three groups were more likely to report self-harm, suicidal thoughts and a plan for suicide than those who were not involved in bullying. Among bullies only, one in ten had self-harmed and one in eight had thought about suicide in the past year. Teenagers who were both the bully and the victim of bullying had the highest levels of self-harm (20%) and suicidal thoughts (20%).”

It went on:

“Involvement in bullying was associated with two times the risk of self-harm and four times the risk of suicidal thoughts.”

Hence an under-16 social media ban can’t protect our children while our mainstream news, politicians and schools are the bullies and making a living from it.

The report did ask how bullying can be stopped.

It said indeed: “Reducing bullying requires a multifaceted approach focusing on individuals involved, parents, teachers and school climate.”

If schools, media and governments do not eradicate antisemitism immediately, the result will be existentially horrific for Western society—that means everyone.

 Canadian marketing professor and evolutionary behavioural scientist Gad Saad posted a warning to X on 28 June.

Saad is the author of the best-selling “Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind” which examines the impact on Western society of open borders to illegal aliens who want to kill it.

He said:

I hate to say this but please hear me out. For decades, I have made a daily Herculean effort to warn people about the dangers facing the West. My goal was to ensure that any auto-corrective process meant to address the problems would be a peaceful one. I fear that this window has closed. Prepare for astounding violence. It may not come tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. But it is coming. Save this post.

Time is running out.

It is time for those protecting our kids to clean out extremism from our schools. It’s time to close the doors to the mental asylum that’s the grifting institution called the UN and return balance to the mainstream news.

As adults, particularly over this past decade, we’ve taken our societies for granted: we’ve let bad people exploit our freedom to speak and our liberty to sanctify our vocabulary.

“Liberty” and “freedom” are two different words, and they must never be forgotten.

I am free to do whatever I please, but I am at liberty to do so, so long as I don’t affect your freedom to do as you please. That is the definition of law and order.

These two words are therefore a chain.

When broken, 70 million people die.

© 2026 Adam Parker.

Picture credit: Adelaide November 2023 school protest poster. Source: Facebook. Public domain.